Tag Archives: IT discovery

Dear JDisc friends, we are constantly improving the discovery. Right now, one of our focus areas is to improve the discovery in the storage area. As a first new feature in this focus area, we scan the ISCSI initiators, targets and sessions. That provides detailed information about which servers uses what ISCSI target on what…

Dear JDisc friends, our Dependency Mapping Add-On can determine the list of open TCP/UDP ports together with the TCP/IP connections. Since quite a while, we had the idea to be more precise on the TCP/UDP ports and connections. Right now, we can get the information that there is a communication between a device ‘A’ on…

Dear JDisc users, our Device History Add-On highlights changes on devices which occur over time. This very useful feature to track changes was only applicable on a device level. Up to now, it was not possible to list all devices where a change occurred in the operating system information or any other device information. We…

Dear JDisc friends, when JDisc Discovery connects via secure shell (SSH) to a device then the device’s SSH agent returns its remote identification string – even if the access credentials do not match. The remote identification string usually contains the vendor or the SSH service on the device and its version. In the past, JDisc…

Dear JDisc friends, it has been a while since the last blog post. In fact, we have added a lot of new features that you might not be aware of. This blog post just reports the most prominent enhancements. Refer to our release notes for more details. The most prominent and long awaited features is…

Dear JDisc friends, we are happy to announce our first 64 bit JDisc Discovery product. With version 4.0, JDisc Discovery can utilize more memory than before. This enables more concurrent device discoveries and thus speeds up the discovery process. The second major features is a new and simplified installation procedure. Installing and updating JDisc Discovery…

New Major Release 3.4 today we published our new major release 3.4. We constantly enhance our products with smaller enhancements. Typically, we create a new build with bugfixes and smaller enhancements every week. Check out our release notes if you are interested in the details. At least once a year, we add new major features…

Dear JDisc friends, in order to simplify the Windows installation process, most hardware vendors provide the OEM license key within the computer’s BIOS. We have enhanced our device discovery in order to retrieve the stored license key. We store the license key attached to the BIOS firmware object. The license key is also available within…

Dear JDisc Friends, small plates can be very tasty. The same is true for JDisc Discovery enhancements. You do not need to add the new big killer feature. Sometimes, smaller and even easy to implement features can add a lot of value to our product. The feature I am presenting now is an example for such…

This new feature made it into the JDisc Discovery 3.0. Enterprise routers and switches often have module slots for extension modules. Those modules often provide new high speed network ports such as 10GB ethernet uplinks. Of course, administrators want to know which modules are part of a switch or router. JDisc Discovery did collect this…